The BBC has been criticised for paying expenses to a disgraced academic
accused of being a Holocaust denier who pestered families bereaved by the
July 7 bombings in London.

By Nicole Martin, Digital and Media Correspondent

10:59PM BST 10 Jun 2008

Nicholas Kollerstrom was recompensed for his part in TheConspiracy Files, a forthcoming BBC2 documentary about the theories surrounding the 2005 attacks on London's transport system.

Dr Kollerstrom believes the four men who murdered 52 people almost three years ago were "innocent patsies" set up by a combination of the British, American and Israeli secret services.

Families who lost relatives in the bombings have branded the BBC insensitive for featuring Dr Kollerstrom in the documentary, which will be broadcast in the autumn.

John Taylor, whose daughter Carrie died, said: "He is helping the terrorists more than anything and I am not happy with the BBC giving him a platform."

Last month Dr Kollerstrom was stripped of an honorary research fellowship at University College London after publishing a paper in which he claimed that there was no intentional mass extermination programme of Jews.